Two Lifetime Alexander Gold Staters

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 103. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $3300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (8.58 g, 1h). Sardes mint. Struck circa 325-323 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with serpent, single-pendant earring, and necklace / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing right, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; below left wing, ram’s head left. Price 2528; ADM I series I, 1; SNG München -; SNG Saroglos -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Berry 164. EF, lustrous. Interesting symbol. Very rare.